PCLinuxOS to access Windows shared files

[Dark Atheist]

think he said he needs one pc as a xp box

 

[Heeter]

Yeah, the XP box happens to have all the wifes files, reports, email accounts, and a million other documents and databases for her business. The main drive holds the OS, apps, and the slave is mirror raided, and holds all the said files. I would like her to move onto Linux, but at a really slow pace. She has switched over to Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice on the XP box.

My debian setup is going towards my FTP,web, email server.

(if I could finally put in time to finish it, lol. That is going to be a whole other thread here, LOL)







Heeter

 

[vern]

So this topic got me curious about sharing my NFS exports and doing so is very very easy. Probably easier than configuring Samba. While there is third-party software out there for this, I haven't found any that are free except for Microsoft's.

First download Windows Services for UNIX ...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...88-601B-44F1-81A4-02878FF11778&displaylang=en

... and install the NFS client.


Once installed, all your exported NFS shares can be viewed and used like any Samba share like this screenie ...

http://ribbed.us/zen/various/screenshots/windows+services+for+unix.JPG.php

The NFS client can access the shares using an authentication service like NIS, but for my home network, passwd and group files with username mapping did the job.

 

[Heeter]

Knowing this, I might swing back to PCLinuxOS,

Thanks, Vern


Heeter

 

[Dark Atheist]

http://docs.pclinuxos.com/Samba